However, he [Jordan] insisted, "Congress needs to stop" trying to remove Trump from office, "one week before he is set to leave."
"Continued calls to impeach the president or remove him from office using the 25th Amendment I don't think are healthy for our nation," he said. "Rushing this resolution to the floor will do nothing to unify or heal the country."
Jordan's Democratic colleagues balked at that suggestion.
"I'm asking you to make a statement that the election was not stolen, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won fair and square, that's the question," Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the chair of the House Rules Committee, told Jordan, following the Ohio congressman's comments.
Jordan refused to do that, admitting that Biden would be president, but rejecting that idea that he had won fairly.
Jordan went on to demand investigations into the election results, despite the fact that the Justice Department itself has said there was no widespread fraud, as Trump and many Republicans have suggested. Nearly 60 judges have ruled against lawsuits filed by Trump and his GOP allies that alleged such fraud, typically without any evidence.
Jordan's stubbornness stands in contrast with his calls for "unity" and demands that Democrats drop the effort to impeach Trump a second time.
